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Open Access Potential and Uptake in the Context of Plan S - a Partial Gap Analysis Open access potential and uptake in the context of Plan S - a partial gap analysis - ■ November 2019 Prepared by Bianca Kramer & Jeroen Bosman Utrecht University Library This work was commissioned on behalf of cOAlition S by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), a member of cOAlition S. Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman of Utrecht University Library were appointed to lead the project. 1 Open access potential and uptake in the context of Plan S - a partial gap analysis Utrecht, November 2019 Bianca Kramer 0000-0002-5965-6560 ​ Jeroen Bosman 0000-0001-5796-2727 ​ This work was commissioned on behalf of cOAlition S by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), a member of cOAlition S. Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman of Utrecht University Library were appointed to lead the project. A number of colleagues at Utrecht University Library contributed data and insights to the 30 narratives for subdisciplines in this report, among which: Jan de Boer Arja Firet 0000-0002-2271-6996 ​ Margriet Fokken 0000-0003-1728-1972 ​ Joost van Gemert 0000-0002-0121-2473 ​ Marjan Groenouwe 0000-0003-1696-0519 ​ Erika Manten Barbara Vreede 0000-0002-5023-4601 ​ Felix Weijdema 0000-0001-5150-1102 ​ Paulien Wiersma 0000-0003-0597-4800 ​ report available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3543000 ​ data available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3549020 ​ 2 Table of contents Executive summary 5 1. Introduction 8 2. Methodology 10 3. Main results 15 3.1 Open access options and usage 15 3.2 Full gold OA - CC licenses and copyright retention 17 3.3 Hybrid journals - licenses 19 3.4 Green OA - embargoes, licenses and copyright retention 21 3.5 Database options and recommendations 24 4. Main disciplines - results and publication culture 26 4.1 Physical sciences & technology 26 4.2 Life sciences & medicine 28 4.3 Social sciences 30 4.4 Arts & humanities 31 5. Subdisciplines - results visualization 34 A. Open access options and usage 35 B. Full gold OA journals - CC licenses & copyright retention 36 C. Hybrid journals - licenses 37 D. Green OA - embargoes 38 E. Green OA - licenses 39 F. Green OA - copyright retention 40 6. Subdisciplines - results and publication culture 41 PHYSICS 41 CHEMISTRY 44 ENGINEERING 46 MATERIALS SCIENCE 48 MATHEMATICS 50 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 52 COMPUTER SCIENCE 54 OPTICS 56 GEOLOGY 58 ENERGY & FUELS 60 3 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 62 NEUROSCIENCES & NEUROLOGY 66 CELL BIOLOGY 68 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY 70 IMMUNOLOGY 72 PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 74 MICROBIOLOGY 76 GENETICS & HEREDITY 78 ONCOLOGY 80 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 84 GOVERNMENT & LAW 86 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 88 GEOGRAPHY 90 LINGUISTICS 92 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 94 SOCIOLOGY 96 PHILOSOPHY 98 HISTORY 100 References 103 Appendix 104 A1. Journal size 104 A2. Full gold OA journals - Publisher types and fee/no-fee journals 105 A3. Coverage of social sciences and arts & humanities 111 A4. Database characteristics 114 A5. Coverage of newer full OA publishing venues 115 4 Executive summary Context Plan S, launched in September 2018, aims to accelerate a transition to full and immediate Open Access. In the guidance to implementation, released in November 2018 and updated in May 2019, a gap analysis of Open Access journals/platforms was announced. Its goal was to inform Coalition S funders on the Open Access options per field and identify fields where there is a need to increase the share of Open Access journals/platforms. The analysis presented in this report, carried out by Utrecht University Library, aims to provide cOAlition S with initial quantitative and descriptive data on the availability and usage of various open access options in different fields and subdisciplines, and, as far as possible, their compliance with Plan S requirements. As such, it should be seen as a first step: an exploration in methodology as much as in results. Subsequent interpretation (e.g. on fields where funder investment/action is needed) and decisions on next steps (e.g. on more complete and longitudinal monitoring of Plan S-compliant venues) is intentionally left to cOAlition S and its members. Approach For this analysis, we looked at the journals in Web of Science in which cOAlition S-funded research was published in 2017. We included all members of cOAlition S at the time of sampling (November 2018) as well as EC and ERC. Combining information from various sources (notably Unpaywall, Directory of Open Access Journals, Crossref and SHERPA/RoMEO), we analyzed the proportion and characteristics of full OA journals, hybrid journals and journals allowing green OA (self-archiving) in four main fields and 30 subdisciplines, as well as the proportion of articles with cOAlition S funding that made use of these options for OA publishing. We also looked, as far as possible, at the proportion of journals meeting plan S requirements regarding copyright retention, compliant CC-licenses and absence of embargoes. The analysis did not include the technical requirements for journals and repositories mandated or recommended in Plan S, transparency of costs and prices, or the extent to which hybrid journals are currently part of transformative arrangements for cOAlition S funded researchers, as this could not be determined using our methods. Also, it should be stressed that any gaps and compliance levels revealed in this study can not and do not take into account the effects of planned or expected policy changes, or changes that have been implemented since 2017. The study also briefly reports on distribution of journal size and, for full gold OA journals, publisher types and publication fee levying. Finally, in addition to information about open access options, the reports also covers some aspects of publication cultures in the respective fields and subdisciplines: the role of societies, the importance of languages other than English, typical numbers of co-authors and CC-licenses used. This provides contextual information to enhance the interpretation of the analyses and identify potential for policy changes. 5 Limitations As this analysis is only based on journals included in Web of Science, it should be seen as a first attempt or proof of concept. We identify and address a number of methodological limitations and inherent biases in our data, and give recommendations for a more complete analysis using additional (and ideally fully open) data sources. Methodological and data limitations in this study lead to lack of coverage (esp. in social sciences and arts & humanities) and some underestimation (a.o. of hybrid and green OA). Regarding coverage, Web of Science has a known bias towards the sciences, a time lag in including new journals and geographical biases in coverage. In particular, the low numbers of journals and articles in certain fields in social sciences and almost all fields in the arts & humanities limits the usefulness of the approach taken in this gap analysis for these fields. Main results - potential and uptake of open access types The report shows the number and proportion of gold OA DOAJ journals, hybrid journals and closed journals per main field and for 30 subdisciplines, as well as the number and proportion of hybrid and subscription journals allowing green archiving. Similarly, the number and proportion of articles of each OA type in these journals per main field are reported. The results show that in all main fields, including arts & humanities, over 75% of journals in our analysis do allow gold open access publishing. This currently consists predominantly of hybrid journals, which authors can only use in a Plan S compliant publishing route when the journal is part of a transformative arrangement or when authors also immediately share their article as green OA. Almost all hybrid journals included in this analysis (irrespective of discipline) do allow for green OA archiving, but green OA options could only be detected for about 50% of closed journals. The largest shares of full OA journals are found in life sciences & medicine and physical sciences & technology, which is also reflected in their uptake. The most striking though not surprising result is the very large number of closed publications in hybrid journals, also given the fact that most of these journals do allow green open access. The share of open access publications in hybrid journals is, again, the highest in life sciences & medicine but surprisingly the lowest in physical sciences & technology, with intermediary levels in social sciences and in arts & humanities. Main results - licenses allowed by full gold and hybrid journals Using information from DOAJ directly as well as license information from Crossref and Unpaywall, the number of full gold journals allowing CC-BY/SA/ND or public domain licensing, ​ ​ as well as author copyright retention, was retrieved. The results show that a sizeable proportion (52%) of full gold OA journals already allow Plan S compliant licenses as well as copyright retention and importantly, that these journals are responsible for a large majority (78%) of ​ ​ articles published in full OA journals by cOAlition S fundees. The biggest opportunity (in a quantitative sense) for physical sciences & technology and life sciences & medicine is increased offering of copyright retention, while in arts & humanities it is increased offering of compliant licenses. Using information at journal level from Crossref, SHERPA/RoMEO and Unpaywall, an estimation can be made of the number and proportion of hybrid journals in a field currently ​ ​ 6 allowing a CC-BY/SA/ND license for OA articles. The results show that, depending on the main field, between 30-50% of hybrid journals currently allow the use of Plan S compliant licenses. Main results - green open access embargoes Almost all hybrid journals and about half of the closed journals in our analysis do allow green OA archiving. The results show that in physical sciences & technology and life sciences & medicine, a 12 month embargo is most prevalent, with longer embargoes more common in social sciences and especially arts & humanities.
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